A Scottsdale man is offering $1,000 to anyone with clues that will help find two people whose boat crashed into a 15-year-old boy on Bartlett Lake on Saturday, leaving the teen severely injured. Josiah Destin/azcentral.com

Michael Banach (left), a Good Samaritan who saved the life of a boy who was the victim of a hit-and-run boating accident at Bartlett Lake, speaks to the media next to Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Joaquin Enriquez (right).(Photo: Josiah Destin/The Republic)

A Scottsdale man who came to the aid of a 15-year-old boy severely injured in a boating accident on Bartlett Lake is offering $1,000 to anyone with clues that will help find two people whose boat crashed into the teen.

Michael Banach was on a boat with family and friends on Saturday when a jet skier alerted him about the boating accident.

Banach, during a press conference Tuesday, said he drove his boat to the 15-year-old in about a minute and pulled him out of the water. Two others who were with Banach stabilized the boy on a swim platform while he called authorities for help.

"Nobody was taking action. Everybody was in complete panic," Michael Banach said Tuesday. "And I just took initiative and did what I thought helped the situation to the best of my ability."

"He was completely unconscious, barely breathing," Banach said. "You couldn't see his eyes. You couldn't see his nose. You could tell it was a very traumatic injury."

The boy was flown to a hospital, where he is now recovering and in stable condition after suffering injuries to his head and face, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office said.

Banach and his sister were both shaken by the incident.

"She actually broke down in tears, She was just really rattled. All of us," Banach said. "I was completely irritated and upset — just really, really shocked at the class of people that would do that, so it was very disheartening."

Officials credited Banach's actions for helping the boy to survive.

MCSO Detective Robert Marske credited Banach's actions with helping to save the boy's life.

The teen was on a personal watercraft when he was struck by a boat that fled the scene, MCSO officials said. The Sheriff's Office has been looking for two people believed to have been on the boat that hit the boy.

Banach offered to give $1,000 for any information that leads to the arrest of anyone in the case. He said a friend visiting from Canada on vacation has matched Banach's offer by adding another $1,000. The friend was not at the lake when the accident happened.

Marske said the suspects were possibly in an aluminum-gray speed boat with a dark stripe.

He said the people on board are believed to be a woman with long black hair, at least 18 years old but possibly in her early 20s. The second person was a man with a shaved head and a blond goatee who appeared to be in his 30s.

Banach offered a message to the people who fled the scene:

"Be honest with yourself, and take ownership and answer any questions. I don't think there'sany fault blamed here. I think there's just a lot of missing pieces that need to be completed. And do the right thing."

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office asks if you know anything, saw anything, or if someone told you something to call 602-876-1011.